Your Friends Could Be Sharing Your Phone Number with ChatGPT (pcmag.com)
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- News link: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/15/0040259/your-friends-could-be-sharing-your-phone-number-with-chatgpt
- Source link: https://www.pcmag.com/news/watch-out-your-friends-might-be-sharing-your-number-with-chatgpt?test_uuid=04IpBmWGZleS0I0J3epvMrC&test_variant=A
> It's "completely optional," [OpenAI] says. However, even if you don't opt in, anyone with your number who syncs their contacts are giving OpenAI your digits. "OpenAI may process your phone number if someone you know has your phone number saved in their device's address book and chooses to upload their contacts," [2]the company says ...
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> But why would you follow someone on ChatGPT? It lines up with [3]reports , dating back to April, that OpenAI is building a social network. We haven't seen much since then, save for the [4]Sora generative video app , which exists outside of ChatGPT and is more of a novelty. Contact sharing might be the first step toward a much bigger evolution for the world's most popular chatbot. ChatGPT also [5]supports group chats that let up to 20 people discuss and research something using the chatbot. Contact syncing could make it easier to invite people to these chats...
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> [OpenAI] claims it will not store the full data that might appear in your contact list, such as names or email addresses — just phone numbers. However, the company does store the phone numbers in its servers in a coded (or hashed) format. You can also revoke access in your device's settings.
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[1] https://www.pcmag.com/news/watch-out-your-friends-might-be-sharing-your-number-with-chatgpt
[2] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001059-information-on-contact-imorting-for-people-who-dont-use-openais-services
[3] https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor
[4] https://www.pcmag.com/news/brace-yourself-for-a-flood-of-ai-videos-openais-sora-app-launches-on-android
[5] https://www.pcmag.com/news/chatgpt-is-testing-group-conversations-but-you-cant-access-them-yet
EU GDPR (Score:3)
Hi ChatGPT, if you want to operate in the EU, please pass this [1]GDPR Checklist [gdpr.eu] to one of your lawyers. Preferably the head of legal, as he will be cross if a junior lawyer fucks it up.
[1] https://gdpr.eu/checklist/
Re: EU GDPR (Score:2)
You'll just get it returned with a crayon scribbled all over it
Why is Contact sharing legal? (Score:2)
Yes, I get that it is new(ish) idea, but so what.
Phone numbers are extremely private information that sane people should not be giving to corporations. There are these things called spam calls - often robocalls but sometimes even human telemarketing.
There are reasons why beautiful women do not just give their phone number out - they do not want their time to be wasted on 'losers'.
Giving out your phone number to someone you do not know is incredibly stupid.
Phone numbers are personal, private information th
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Nobody complained? That must be why nobody, ever, got their number unlisted.
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Lol - yeah, things totally are the same today as back when we had phonebooks.
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In the era of computers, a phone book holds next to no value compared with a database of phone numbers. Nobody complained 100 years ago because there where no computers abusing phone book usage back then.
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It is illegal under the GDPR. Sharing your contact list may make you liable if somebody in there gets their identity stolen. There are no court-cases yet, but in principle you have zero permission to use contact info for anything than contacting the person. That permission you got implicitly by them handing the info to you. But the GDPR says the info still belongs to them, you just have a very limited permission to use it. Oh, and if they ask, you are legally required to delete all of it and that would incl
And if they do that, they are not my friends (Score:2)
Incidentally, anybody that has any of your personal information can share it with ChatGPT. But in Europe, that would be illegal and may make them liable for all damage caused.
Save time (Score:2)
Just give ChatGPT your password. What could possibly go wrong...
Re: Save time (Score:3)
Probably nothing consequential but certainly something hilariously stupid.
We pay for these things at work and people swear by them for everything from writing code to to come up with project names. I held out for a few years. Then out of sheer morbit curiosity I fired it up to see what it (Claude I think is what we have) would do for me.
I asked it for a hello world in rust. Okay.
Then I asked it for a position/velocity vector rotation in c++. First round got the sign of the rotation wrong. Second round it fi
MS was first (Score:2)
MS Teams demands access to all contacts. What do we think happens next?
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It does not do so in Europe. Maybe because giving it that permission would be illegal in most cases.
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Yea, LinkedIn used to regularly ask for the same thing a few years back. So unprofessional it made me loose respect for LinkedIn at that point.